Natrum Muriaticum

▲   GENERAL

Dose

Twelfth to thirtieth and higher. The very highest potencies often yield most brilliant results. And in infrequent dosage.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, noise, music, warm room, lying down; about 10 a.m., at seashore, mental exertion, consolation, HEAT, talking.

Better

BETTER, open air, cold bathing, going without regular meals, lying on right side; pressure against back, tight clothing.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Complementary

Complementary to Apis Mel ^Apis; Sepia ^Sepia; Ignatia ^Ign.

Antidotes

Antidotes: Arsenicum Album ^Ars.; Phosphorus ^Phos.; Spir. nit. Dulcamara ^Dulc.

▲   MIND

Mind

Psychic causes of disease; ill effects of grief, fright, anger, etc

Depressed, particularly in chronic diseases

Consolation aggravates

Irritable; gets into a passion about trifles

Awkward, hasty

Wants to be alone to cry

Tears with laughter.

Aversions, dislikes

company

company; people intolerable during urination

indolence, aversion to work

Consolation

Conversation

Delirium; during chill

Symptoms follow intense emotions

fright

ailments from grief

cannot cry

disappointed love

Excitement

Mental exertion

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

anger (see irritability and quarrelsome)

indifference, apathy, etc.

to pleasure

irritability

consolation

loathing; life (see desires, death)

love; silent grief

mildness

sensitive, oversensitive

unhappy; discontent, displeased, dissatisfied, etc.

with everything

unhappy; dwells on past disagreeable occurrences

unhappy; grief

silent

unhappy; sadness, mental depression

during chill

during the heat

before period

cannot weep

weeping, crying, tearful mood (lamenting)

consolation

involuntary

Hurry

Hysteria

Intellectual faculties

impaired thinking; absent-minded (see forgetful)

impaired thinking; confusion

impaired thinking; dull, sluggish

impaired thinking; mistakes; speaking

Insanity; mania, madness; from drinking (delirium tremors)

Insecure, uncertain, scared

anxiety; hypochondriac - worrying about imagined illness

frightened easily; starting, startled

easily

from fright

from noise

Memory; weakness of memory; for mental labour (compare daze)

Ailments after death of part of body

Perception; numbness

Sleep-walking

Talking, conversation; slow learning to talk

Thoughts (see preoccupied); persistent (see delusions)

persistent (see delusions); haunted by unpleasant subjects

tormenting (see anxiety, remorse)

Unconsciousness

during chill

during fever

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Morning; on rising

After drinking

alcohol; liquor

coffee

tea

On exertion of vision

Tendency to fall over

falling forward

falling sideways; falling to left

From looking at.

looking steadily

looking out of a window

In women; during pregnancy

Mental exertion

With nausea; periodic

Perception of objects distorted; seem to turn in a circle

Periodical, recurring, seasonal; regularly

On rising

from bed

From smoking

While walking

▲   HEAD

Head

Throbs

Aches as if a thousand little hammers were knocking on the brain, in the morning on awakening, After menstruation, from Sunrise to sunset

Feels too large; cold

Before attack, numbness and tingling in lips, tongue and nose, relieved by sleep

Frontal sinus inflammation.

Brain; pulsating in brain; like little hammers beating brain

Headache

Blinding headache

Anaemic headache of school-girls; nervous, discouraged, broken down

Chronic headache, semi-lateral, congestive, from sunrise to sunset, with pale face, nausea, vomiting; periodical; from eyestrain; menstrual

Heaviness (see pain

pressing)

pressing); back of head (occiput)

draws eyes together

Pain, headache

morning

on waking

late morning; 10 a.m.

to 3 p.m.

affected by certain foods and drinks (improved, brought on or aggravated); after eating

eyes and vision (affecting or affected by); from straining eyes

on coughing

from emotions

nervous

from exertion; mental exertion

hammering pain

morning

with high or low temperature; headache during the heat

with high or low temperature; headache after the heat

with high or low temperature; headache during the chill

with high or low temperature; headache after the chill

in women; during period

recurring headache

pressure

pulsating

when reading

after sleep

while talking

with fading consciousness

from writing

in forehead

late morning; 10 a.m.

during chill

coughing

pressure

bursting

on coughing

forehead

pressing (see bursting, pulling)

morning; on waking

outward

as if brain bound up

forehead; over eyes

sides

temples

temples; inwards

temples; when reading

temples; while writing

stitching, sudden, sharp; temples; from bright light

stunning; morning

on waking, as from drinking spirits

tearing, rending

Scalp

Hair; falling

Skin and scalp

powdery flaking skin

powdery flaking skin; white

out-break on skin; crusts, scabs

white

out-break on skin; scales; white

itching

▲   EYES

Eyes

Feel bruised, With headache in school children

Eyelids heavy

Muscles weak and stiff

Letters run together

Sees sparks

Fiery, zigzag appearance around all objects

Burning in eyes

Give out on reading or writing

Stricture of lachrymal duct with suppuration

Escape of mucopus when pressing upon sac

Lachrymation, burning and acrid

Lids swollen

Eyes appear wet with tears

Tears stream down face on coughing ( Euph.) Asthenopia due to insufficiency of Internal recti muscles ( Gelsemium Sempervirens ^Gels)

and Cup

acet.; when due to External muscles.) Pain in eyes when looking down

Cataract Incipient ( Secale Cornutum ^Secale.)

Eyebrows

out-breaks on skin around eyebrows

out-breaks on skin around eyebrows; itching

Lids; spasmodic closure

Discoloration

redness

redness; while sewing

redness; lids; spots; veins

Sensation of eyes being pulled together

Sensation of enlargement

Inflammation

Infected; full of dark vessels, conjunctiva (external lining of eye)

Pain

from exertion of vision

when looking

steadily

when using eyes

when reading

while writing (see exertion)

aching

when looking sharply

burning, smarting, gnawing, biting

morning

evening

from exertion of vision

while reading

pulling

stiff sensation, in muscles

together

as from something in eye; like sand in eye

morning

pressing

when looking

Paralysis

of muscles of eyeball; internal recti (to move eye towards other eye)

optic nerve, total blindness, without eye damage (amaurosis)

Intolerance of light (photophobia)

excessive sensibility of the retina

Protrusion

Stiffness; of eyeballs

Strabismus (eyes incorrectly aligned); divergent

Tears

with cough

Vision

Blurred

Colours and shapes in front of eyes

colours; black

colours; black; spots

floating (aka muscae volitantes or spiders)

fiery; zigzags

light; streaks of light

zigzags

Confused vision

Dim

when reading

while writing

Double vision

Exertion of vision

Flickering

during headache

Merging together

letters

stitches, while sewing

Swimming; objects

Weak (see eyes, weak); using eyes

▲   EARS

Ear

Noises; roaring and ringing.

Discharges from ear; white

Itching; behind ear

Noises in ear; rushing

Pain; burning

Hearing

Impaired

▲   FACE

Face

Oily, shiny, as if greased

Earthy complexion

Fever-blisters.

Expression; old looking

Lips

chapped

cracked lips

discoloration; bluish; during chill

out-breaks on lips

cold sores, herpes; around lips

Pain

with paralysis

periodical

after poisoning by quinine

after suppressed shivering fit

Skin

discoloration; iron deficiency anaemia (greenish-yellow discoloration)

discoloration; bluish; from oxygen starvation

discoloration; pale

discoloration; sallow

out-breaks on skin

chin

forehead

cold sores, herpes

cold sores, herpes; around mouth

pimples

blisters

blisters; on chin

blisters; lips

blisters; around mouth

blisters; nose; wings

Swelling

lips

lower

upper

▲   NOSE

Nose

Discharge thin and watery, Like raw white of egg

Use thirtieth potency

Loss of smell and taste

Internal soreness of nose

Dryness.

Catarrh

post nasal (see discharge)

Discharge from nose

albuminous (white, thick)

copious

white

like white of eggs

behind nostrils (see catarrh)

Dryness; inside

Scraping behind nostrils

Smell

diminished

lost sense of smell

Discharge

Violent, fluent coryza, lasting from one to three days, then changing into stoppage of nose, making breathing difficult

Violent sneezing coryza

Infallible for stopping a cold commencing with sneezing

Running or blocked nose (coryza); blocked

annual (hay fever)

running, wet

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Immoderate thirst.

Odour (halitosis, bad breath); offensive

putrid

Pain; sore

Speech; difficult

Lips

Numbness, tingling of tongue, lips, and nose

Eruptions around mouth and Vesicles like pearls on lips

Lips and corners of mouth dry, ulcerated, and cracked

Deep crack in middle of lower lip

Large vesicle on lower lip, which is swollen and burns

Gums and teeth

Scorbutic gums

Bleeding

gums

gums; easily

Growths, blisters, swellings; ulcers; gums

Inflammation; gums

Pain

burning, raw and smarting; gums; while eating

sore; gums; cold and warmth

Swelling; gums

Thrush (whitish flakes); gums

Teeth

pain; from cold; from anything cold

pain; from cold; from cold drinks

pain; while eating; from chewing

sensitive, tender; to air

sensitive, tender; to touch

Saliva

Sense of dryness

Dryness

with thirst

Saliva; mucus, slime

Salivation

Tongue

Frothy coating on tongue, with bubbles on side

Vesicles and burning on tongue, as if there was a hair on it

Discoloration; tongue; white; patches; with island of red

Dryness; tongue; sensation of dryness

Growths, blisters, swellings

blisters; tongue

blisters; tongue; tip

Saliva; mucus, slime; collection of mucus on tongue (see sticky)

Tongue

tongue seems too wide

heaviness, tongue

Taste

Tongue mapped ( Arsenicum Album ^Ars.; Rhus Tox ^Rhus; Taraxacum ^Tarax.) Loss of taste

Taste

bitter

salty

tasteless, lacks taste

tastelessness of food

with running, or blocked nose

▲   THROAT

Throat

Catarrh; upper throat

Choking, constricting; when drinking

Dryness

Sensation of something in throat

crawling; larynx

lump

rising sensation

Hawks often

Inflammation; follicular

Irritation; larynx

Mucus

albuminous (white, thick)

pulled from behind nostrils

white

in the air passages

larynx

morning

Pain; burning

Spasms, convulsions etc.; closing gullet

Swallowing; impeded; solids reach a certain point and are violently ejected

Tickling in the air passages

larynx

Voice; hoarseness

▲   CHEST

Chest

Heart; Tachycardia

Sensation of coldness of heart

Heart and chest feel constricted

Fluttering, palpitating; intermittent pulse

Heart’s pulsations shake body

Intermits on lying down.

Coldness; region of heart; icy coldness during chill

Constriction, tension

Heart

palpitations

palpitations; anxiety

palpitations; on climbing steps

palpitations; from exertion

palpitations; while lying down; side; left

palpitations; from every strange noise

palpitations; tumultuous, violent, intense

palpitations; from unrequited affections

Movements in and of chest

fluttering

fluttering; open air

fluttering; after faintness

fluttering; while lying down

Pain

sides; left

aching; heart

cutting (sudden sharp pain)

extending to shoulder blade

sides; left

sides; left; extending to shoulder blade

stitching, sudden, sharp

sides

Skin; out-breaks on skin; arm pit; crusts

Respiration

Cough from a tickling in the pit of stomach, accompanied by stitches in liver and spurting of urine ( Causticum ^Caust.; Squilla) Stitches all over chest

Cough, with bursting pain in head

Shortness of breath, especially on going upstairs ( Calc Carb ^Calc.) Whooping-cough with Flows of tears with cough.

Pain

when breathing; breathing deeply

when breathing in

respiration; deep

sides; when breathing in

Difficult (dyspnea); open air

ascending

after exertion

physical exertion

while walking; walking rapidly

Hiccup

Stomach; hiccup; violent

▲   COUGH

Cough

Evening; in bed

With or after chill or fever; during fever

Dry cough

during fever

Hacking cough

from tickling in larynx

Sensations in throat and air passages (either from coughing, or causing coughing); from irritation in air passages; in larynx

Movement; of arms

Tickling

larynx

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

White

albuminous (white, thick)

Slimy

Mucous

Transparent, clear

▲   SKIN

Skin

Greasy, oily, especially on hairy parts

Dry eruptions, especially on margin of hairy scalp and bends of joints

Fever blisters

Urticaria; itch and burn

Crusty eruptions in Bends of limbs, margin of scalp, behind ears ( Causticum ^Caust.) Warts on palms of hands

Eczema; raw, red, and inflamed; worse, eating salt, at seashore

Affects hair follicles

Alopecia

HIves, itching after exertion

GREASY skin.

Blisters

surrounded by red skin, from excessive perspiring

Itching

Out-breaks on skin

crusty

white

discharging, moist

thin

excoriated (as if grazed, chaffed)

herpetic

rings

in fevers

itching

from being over heated

pimples

like nettle rash

during chill

warmth and exercise

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back and neck

Pain; sore, bruised, beaten

Neck

Thin, wasted muscles; neck

Skin; itching; neck

Back

Coldness

Pain

while lying down

on something hard

from prolonged stooping

lumbar (lower half of back); lying on something hard

spine

irritation

aching

as if broken; lumbar (lower half of back)

cutting

with rigidness

Pulsating

sacrum (base of spine)

Weakness (tired feeling, in spine)

manual labour

lumbar (lower half of back)

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Stomach; Hungry, yet lose flesh ( Iodium ^Iod.) Heartburn, with palpitation

Unquenchable thirst

Sweats while eating

Craving for salt

Aversion to bread, to anything slimy, like oysters; fats

Throbbing in pit

Sticking sensation in cardiac orifice.

Cutting pain in abdomen

Distended

Pain in abdominal ring on coughing.

Bloated; sides

Pain; lower part of abdomen; before period

Bladder

retention of urine (see urination delayed); unable to pass urine in presence of another

urination; involuntary, incontinence; night, bed wetting

urination; involuntary, incontinence; during cough

urination; involuntary, incontinence; while walking

Stomach

appetite; ravenous, excessive; yet becoming extremely thin

appetite; lacking, no appetite; with hunger

desires, cravings; salt things

disordered

burping, belching; after eating

burping, belching; ineffectual and incomplete

burping, belching; sour; after eating

thirst; during chill

thirst; during heat

thirst; for large quantities

thirst; while perspiring

Eating

appetite; ravenous, excessive; with severe wasting (food not absorbed)

appetite; ravenous, excessive; without enjoying food (see aversion to food)

aversion to certain foods or drinks; bread

aversion to certain foods or drinks; all food; with hunger

burping, belching; tasting like food

indigestion; from starchy food

Nausea

nausea; during fever

Vomiting

vomiting; after chill

vomiting; during heat

vomiting; bile; after chill

vomiting; sour; fluid

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Burning pains and stitching after stool

Anus contracted, Torn, bleeding

Constipation; stool dry, crumbling ( Am)

m.; mag

m.) Painless and copious diarrhoea, preceded by pinching pain in abdomen.

Constipation

inactivity of rectum

insufficient, incomplete, unsatisfactory stool

during period

Constriction, contraction, closure, etc.; during stool

Diarrhoea

daytime only

after certain foods or drinks; starchy food

painless

As if faeces remained in passage

Flatulence; offensive

Haemorrhage from anus

during stool

from hard stool

Involuntary stool

Pain; tearing; during stool

Skin and lining; out-break on skin around anus

Worm; worms

Stool

Strong and sharp (acrid), corrosive, wearing away skin

Like balls

like sheep dung

Crumbling

Dry

Forcible, sudden, gushing

Green

Hard

Mucous, slimy; white

Watery

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Pain just AFTER urinating ( Sarsaparilla ^Sars.) Increased, involuntary when walking, coughing, etc

Has to wait a long time for it to pass If others are present ( Hep Sulph Calc ^Hep.; Muriaticum Acidum ^Mur-ac.)

Colour; pale

Colourless

Sediment

mucous

red

Urethra

Bearing-down pains; worse in morning ( Sepia ^Sep.) Prolapsus uteri, with cutting in urethra

Urethra (urinary part of genitals); discharge; sharp mucous or pus

discharge

sharp mucous or pus; painless

discharge; gonorrhoea; chronic

discharge; milky

discharge; white

chronic

pain; burning; after urination

pain; cutting; after urinating

Male

Male

out-breaks on skin; scrotum; moist

itching; scrotum

thick emission from penis

after sexual intercourse

Female

Vagina dry

Female

vaginal discharge

vaginal discharge; albuminous (white, thick)

vaginal discharge; greenish

vaginal discharge; like boiled starch

vaginal discharge; transparent

vaginal discharge; white

dryness; vagina

pain; vagina; during sexual intercourse

Womb

displacement of womb

pain; bearing down; womb, and region of womb (see labour-like pains, also pains in abdomen)

morning

prolapse; womb; morning

Genitals

Male; Emission, even after coitus

Impotence with retarded emission.

Leucorrhoea acrid, watery

Ineffectual labor-pains

Male

pubic hair; falling off

retraction; foreskin

Female

after-birth; protracted

irritation; itching

pain; labour pains; weak

sexual intercourse; aversion to

sterility

Menses

Menses irregular; usually profuse

Suppressed menses ( Follow with Kali Carb ^Kali-carb.) Hot during menses.

Female

period; copious

period; first period delayed in girls

period; frequent

period; late

period; pale

period; protracted

period; scanty

period; thin

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Pain in back, With desire for some firm support ( Rhus Tox ^Rhus; Sepia ^Sep.) Every movement accelerates the circulation

Palms hot and perspiring

Arms and legs, but especially knees, feel weak

Hangnails

Dryness and cracking about finger-nails

Numbness and tingling in fingers and lower extremities

Ankles weak and turn easily

Painful contraction of hamstring ( Causticum ^Caust.) Cracking in joints on motion

Coldness of legs with congestion to head, chest, and stomach.

Coldness

upper limbs; hands

lower limbs; foot

Constriction; joints

Contraction of muscles and tendons

thigh; hamstrings

hollow of knee

Hands and feet

chapped hand (see roughness); fingers

chapped hand (see roughness); fingers; about the nails

corns; shooting

corns; stinging

nails; hang-nails

Heaviness

upper limbs

leg; on climbing steps

foot

Movements and positions

lameness; lower limbs

trembling; hand

Pain

foot; ulcerative

sore, bruised

Skin

bursae (like bags on skin bursae)

discoloration; fingers; nails; blueness; during chill

itching; like insects crawling on skin; fingers; tips

itching; lower limbs

out-break on skin

blisters; containing fluid

upper limbs

elbow; bend of elbow; herpes

lower limbs; herpes

lower limbs; itching

lower limbs; blisters

thigh; herpes

knee; herpes

knee; hollow of knee; herpes

Tension, tightness

joints

thigh; hamstrings

knee

hollow of knee

leg

calf

calf; while sitting

Tingling, prickling, asleep (see numbness); fingers

Problems with walking, gait; late learning to walk

Weakness; knee

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Chill between 9 and 11 a.m

Heat; violent thirst, increases with fever

Fever-blisters

Coldness of the body, and Continued chilliness very marked

Hydraemia in chronic malarial states with weakness, constipation, loss of appetite, etc

Sweats on every exertion.

Morning

Morning; in bed

Late morning

Noon

Autumn

Beginning in particular area

back; lumbar region (lower half of back)

feet

toes

fingers

hands; and feet

toes

Chilliness (see also whole body; temperature); late morning

Periodic, recurring

attacks recurring earlier each time

recurring daily

With fever, but chill predominating

morning

Shaking, shivering, rigors

late morning

At certain time of day or night

from 9 a.m.; to 11 a.m.

from 10 a.m.

to 11 a.m.

from 11 a.m.

Violent chill

with delirium

with unconsciousness

Late morning

Autumn

Burning heat; late morning

Fever without chill

late morning; 10 a.m.

late morning; 10 a.m.; to 11 a.m.

late morning; 11 a.m.

Intense heat

with delirium

with daze and unconsciousness

Intermittent, chronic

Stages of chill, heat and sweat; chill followed by heat

Desire to uncover

▲   INJURIES AND ACCIDENTS

Injuries and accidents

Poisoning; poisoning by quinine

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Sleepy in forenoon

Nervous jerking during sleep

Dreams of robbers

Sleepless from grief.

Dreams

anxious

fantastic

frightful

robbers

and cannot sleep until the house is searched

thirsty

vivid

Falling asleep; during heat

Sleep between heat of fever

Sleepiness, tiredness; during the heat

Sleeplessness, insomnia

night; from grief

after waking

Sleep-walking

Yawning; during chill

Convulsions

Jerking; as in convulsions

Perspiration

Daytime

Profuse

Other symptoms relieved while perspiring

Generalities

Morning

Morning; 10 a.m.

Late morning

Anaemia

as from iron deficiency - greenish yellow skin

Constriction; internally

Physical exertion

Eating and food

after eating

starchy food

Emaciated (extremely thin)

children (marasmus)

Fluid build up; excess of blood, or other fluids

Haemorrhage

Heaviness; internally

Lying down; after lying down

Pain

burning externally

cutting; internally

jerking; externally

pressing; internally

sore, bruised; externally

tearing; externally

Paralysis; intermittent after fever

In women; symptoms before period

Periodic, recurring

Perspiration; after perspiration

Pulsation

Pulse

frequent, accelerated, elevated, exalted, fast, innumerable, rapid

frequent, accelerated, elevated, exalted, fast, innumerable, rapid; movement

intermittent

irregular

Sensitive; internally

Symptoms after sexual intercourse; symptoms after sexual excesses

From sun; from exposure to sun

Temperature (felt and effects of temperature); hot feeling; sensation of heat

tendency to catch cold

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

evening

Weariness (see weakness)

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